Replies to post #7511 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[wbmw]

Chipguy, nice find. I have always wanted some confirmation about the amount of memory used in the SPEC applications.

[Haddock]

>> Amazing what you can do when the entire benchmark
>> fits in on-die cache!
>
> Nice theory but the only company that can come close
> to that is IBM with 128 MB L3 in POWER4(+) systems.


Surely that's not on-die?

But I must admit, Itanium 6M kicks bottom at SPECfp-like stuff, no doubt about it. SGI say they already sold 25 Altix systems, that has got to take off now that Madison is available.

I stand by what I said earlier, the new entries to the top500 list this year will be Opterons and Itaniums. Why bother with anything else?